Edgar Rice Burroughs 2 hr 51 min read

Boring straight down in an experimental 'iron mole,' two men break through into Pellucidar, a savage inner world lit by a central sun.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1914 classic launches the Pellucidar saga, stranding David Innes in a hollow-Earth realm of dinosaurs, the reptilian Mahars, ape-men, and the beautiful Dian. Rip-roaring lost-world adventure from the master of pulp romance, endlessly imitated. Read it for a founding classic of subterranean SF, all peril, wonder, and headlong Burroughs energy.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 51 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).